Rectilinear

Rectilinear means related to a straight line; it may refer to:

Gnomonic projection, also called rectilinear projection
Rectilinear grid, a tessellation of the Euclidean plane
Rectilinear lens, a photographic lens
Rectilinear locomotion, a form of animal locomotion
Rectilinear polygon, a polygon whose edges meet at right angles
Rectilinear propagation, a property of waves
Rectilinear Research Corporation, a now defunct manufacturer of high-end loudspeakers
Rectilinear style, the third historical division of English Gothic architecture
Rectilinear motion or linear motion is motion along a straight line
Rectilinear prophecy, where a straight line can be drawn from the prophecy to the fulfillment without any branches as in the case of typological interpretations
Near-rectilinear halo orbit, a highly-elliptical orbit around a Lagrangian point of a moon, that due to the moons orbital movement, will be nearly rectilinear in some frames of reference.

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